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Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 63

Then, drawing his sword, he seized the enchantress by her beautiful ringlets, and made a gesture as if he meant to strike off her head at one blow.

Who acts: virtue · What happens: draw, seize, make, mean, strike off · To what, where: sword, enchantress, gesture, head, one blow

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

advmodpunctadvclnmod:possobjpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccconjdetobjmarkmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompcompound:prtnmod:possobjcasenummodoblpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTdrawingVERBhisPRONswordNOUN,PUNCThePRONseizedVERBtheDETenchantressNOUNbyADPherPRONbeautifulADJringletsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmadeVERBaDETgestureNOUNasSCONJifSCONJhePRONmeantVERBtoPARTstrikeVERBoffADPherPRONheadNOUNatADPoneNUMblowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem8 seizedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thenpunct
3drawingdrawVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 seizedadvcl
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 swordnmod:poss
5swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing3 drawingobj
6,,PUNCT_3 drawingpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 seizednsubj
8seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 enchantressdet
10enchantressenchantressNOUNNumber=Sing8 seizedobj
11bybyADP_14 ringletscase
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 ringletsnmod:poss
13beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos14 ringletsamod
14ringletsringletNOUNNumber=Plur8 seizedobl
15,,PUNCT_17 madepunct
16andandCCONJ_17 madecc
17mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 seizedconj
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 gesturedet
19gesturegestureNOUNNumber=Sing17 madeobj
20asasSCONJ_23 meantmark
21ififSCONJ_23 meantmark
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 meantnsubj
23meantmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 madeadvcl
24totoPART_25 strikemark
25strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf23 meantxcomp
26offoffADP_25 strikecompound:prt
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 headnmod:poss
28headheadNOUNNumber=Sing25 strikeobj
29atatADP_31 blowcase
30oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 blownummod
31blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing25 strikeobl
32..PUNCT_8 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drawgerundvirtue not said herevirtue's swordvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2seizepastvirtuethe enchantressthenby tiger's beautiful ringletsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantress=Theme
3makepastvirtue not said herea gesturevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product
4meanpastvirtuevn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5strike off not said to happento-infinitivevirtue not said heretiger's headone blowvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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